Skirt.



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SKIRT.

(Applicli'cion filed mar. 28, 1899.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SUSAN MCGEE, OF JACKSON, MICHIGAN.

SKIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming art of Letters ates No. 656,035, dated August 14, 1900.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SUSAN MOGEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jackson, in the county of Jackson and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Skirts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to skirts; and the objects of the same are to provide a skirt which may be quickly taken up or let out at the waist-line to fit persons of large or small waists or hips and to provide a skirt with a waistband or yoke which can be readily adjusted at opposite sides of the placket-opening to fit persons of widely-different shapes and sizes without producing unsightly enlargements at any point around the waist or hips. I attain these objects by means of the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of an underskirt made in accordance with my invention and showing the placket closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the waistband and yoke, showing the placket and the adj usting-tabs open.

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In said drawings the numeral 1 designates the skirt, which may be of the usual con-' struction, and 2 is the waistband or yoke. This waistband or yoke does not extend continuously around the top of-the skirt from the front to the placket-opening 3, but at any suitable point at the sides of the hip portion or toward the back the waistband or yoke is discontinued, as at 4, and the upper edge 5 of the skirt is unprovided with a waistband for a distance corresponding to the required limit of adjustment deemed necessary. Two tabs 6 6 are secured to the top of the skirt material at the back and these tabs serve both as a placket-fastening and as a means of adjustment in size of the waistband or yoke. The placket-opening may be closed Application filed Maroh 23, 1899. Serial No- '7l0,l87i (No model.)

by any suitable fastenings, as by buttons '7. The tabs 6 are provided with any desired number of eyelet-holes 8, formed in three or more horizontal rows and any suitable number of vertical rows, the distance between the vertical rows being such that quite a range of adjustment is provided for the hooks 9, secured to the terminal edges of the waistband or yoke 2.

It will be obvious that any other suitable fastening may be used instead of hooks and eyelet-holes.

From the foregoing it will be understood that the hooks 9 may be engaged with any one of the vertical rows of eyelet-holes 9 in the placket-tabs 6 upon opposite sides of the placket-opening and that when the required adjustment is made to fit the purchaser a neat and finished appearance is given to the skirt and no unsightly bunches or enlargements'are produced around the waist or hips. Moreover, owing to the fact that the take-up is upon opposite sides of the placket-opening the skirt will hang evenly and fit smoothly.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I- claim is- Like numerals of reference'designate like A skirt provided with a waistband or yoke extending partially around the waist-line and secured to the upper edge of the skirt material, a portion of the upperedge of said skirt material being unprovided with a waistband or yoke, a pair ofplacket-tabs of the width of said waistband or yoke secured to the upper edge of the skirt on the opposite sides of the placket at the back, and each provided with a series of vertical rows of fasteners and complemental means for detachably closing the placket, and a vertical series of fasteners on the rear ends of the waistband or yoke complemental to the rows of fasteners on-the placket-tabs, substantially as described.

SUSAN MGGEE. Witnesses: v

A. M. MOGEE, WM. F. McGEE, 

